Questions remain after skull discovery

Crime scene

York Regional Police have confirmed some details, but many questions remain, in relation to a skull found in the thick brush behind numerous upscale homes in Thornhill.
During a press conference at the end of Callaway Court, a cul-de-sac in the Bathurst Street and Hwy. 7 area of Vaughan, Det.-Sgt. John Braybrook said investigators are certain the skull was human, but remain unsure of the sex, age or race.
A local resident made the grisly discovery Sunday while on a walk, however, that person refuses to speak to the media, police said.
Now, forensic teams, homicide investigators and the coroner’s office are working in tandem to decipher the DNA of the skull and try to determine what happened.
The skull was found on the northern edge of Thornhill’s Uplands Golf and Country Club, near Bathurst and Hwy. 407.
Police are treating the incident as suspicious and continuing to search for the remainder of body parts in the surrounding brush and nearby woods.
There was talk by police on the scene about whether or not the person was transient and if an animal may have picked up and moved the remains to a different location than where it may have rested originally.
Det.-Sgt. Braybrook said the investigation is so early that police have yet to look at the surveillance footage of the neighbours, many of whom have cameras on the outside of their homes.
If you have information, call police at 1-866-287-5025, ext. 7865, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, leave an anonymous tip at 1800222tips.com, send an e-mail to homicide@yrp.ca or text your tip to CRIMES (274637) starting with the word YORK.